The efficacy and effects of medicinal wine

Medicine wine is a kind of Chinese wine culture, a kind of health and wellness drink combining wine and important, mainly based on fermented wine, distilled wine or edible alcohol, adding edible animal or plant herbs, and processed into liquor by different ways such as soaking, boiling and steaming. Medicinal wine contains the dual effects of medicine and wine. In addition to the effects of wine and medicine themselves, wine also enhances the effects of the medicine in it, so here's what you need to know about the efficacy and effects of medicinal wine.

The main functions of medicinal wine

1. medicinal wine has a specific effect on the treatment of certain diseases, prevention and rehabilitation after the disease has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. 2. medicinal wine has the role of health care, with its tonic, nourishing function, play the role of tonic deficiency and strengthen the body, support the righteousness and dispel evil, anti-decay and life and health care.

The main uses of medicinal wine

Topical medicinal wine is mainly used for the treatment of joint or tendon sprains, muscle strain or rheumatic nerve pain. Internal medicinal liquor is divided into therapeutic medicinal liquor and tonic medicinal liquor. Therapeutic herbal liquor is mainly used to treat rheumatism and bruises, while tonic herbal liquor is mostly used to nourish qi, blood, both qi and blood, and to tonify the kidneys and strengthen yang. Qi tonic herbal liquor is effective in treating fatigue and lazy speech caused by Qi deficiency; Qi and blood tonics are used to regulate pallor, fatigue, palpitation and shortness of breath due to deficiency of Qi and blood.

Classification of medicinal wines

According to the usage of medicinal wine, it can be divided into three categories: internal, external and both internal and external. According to the function of medicinal wine, medicinal wine can be divided into two categories: one is therapeutic medicinal wine with specific medical effects, such as wind chasing medicinal wine, bruising and battering medicinal wine, rheumatic bone pain wine, etc.; the other is health care medicinal wine with nourishing and strengthening effects, such as angelica wine, mealybug wine, ginseng wine, three whips wine, etc. Yang tonic herbal liquor is used to regulate the weakness of the waist and knees, coldness and hypogonadism caused by kidney Yang deficiency.

Ingredients for making medicinal wine

Most of the medicinal wines for bruises and injuries are made from herbs that invigorate blood stasis, relieve pain and inflammation, and strengthen the bones and waist, such as bruises and injuries wine. The medicinal liquor for treating rheumatism is mainly prepared from herbs that dispel wind and dampness, disperse cold and relieve pain, such as Guogong wine, tiger bone wine, and Shujianjuo wine.

Precautions for taking medicinal wine

If you do not know how to drink alcohol, you can mix one part of medicinal wine into 10 parts of cold boiled water with honey and then take it. 2. If it is a therapeutic medicinal wine, you should stop drinking it immediately after healing and should not take it for a long time, even if it is a tonic medicinal wine, you should not take more.

Who should not drink medicinal wine

People who do not drink alcohol should not drink medicinal wine; Pregnant women, nursing mothers, children and other people should not drink medicinal wine; Patients with chronic nephritis, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, peptic ulcer, epilepsy, cardiac insufficiency, and hypertension are prohibited from drinking medicinal wine to avoid aggravating their conditions.